MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

re: outer borough girls...parts of the outer boroughs were, and still are, essentially the suburbs.

first few paragraphs of that article feature a bit of gay-baiting too, ouch.

it was published literally TWO DAYS AFTER STONEWALL. whoa.

Befitting this most recent episode's maladroit lesbian subplot.

i thought that was a great but excruciating episode. i have such foreboding about everything that happened, from betty and don, to the stabbing of abe, to peggy and ted, to the continued misery of meghan. poor, poor meghan.

Speaking of Stonewall...you think Sal may make an appearance before the finale? Midge, Duck, Freddy and Paul were all resurrected for an episode or two, after all.

I don't think he will but I hope he will. Who would he show up to interact with?

Don runs out of women, seeks Sal out after seeing Midnight Cowboy.

Awesome to see Duck again btw

reveal of silent Harry Crane in the first meeting was so good

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"i have strong feelings both ways"

Speaking of Stonewall...you think Sal may make an appearance before the finale? Midge, Duck, Freddy and Paul were all resurrected for an episode or two, after all.

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sal wasn't really the type of frequent a place like stonewall. more of a working-class bar AFAIK.

You know the only place he's frequenting c. 1968 is an early grave.

so what's up with Bob lying about his dad

huh?

yeah, he said his dad was dead in the first ep of the season

and then this episode Bob told Pete this doctor/nurse he was recommending had nursed his dad to health

BACK to health

also: Peggy hasn't hit bottom yet imho, she still has to get the "I told you so" speech from her mother

His father is a Bunn coffeemaker. xp

Surely someone can be nursed back to health and then die at a later date.

But wasn't it suggested that the nurse had just nursed Bob's dad back from the brink, thus he was available? It's possible though that Bob was just fibbing to save Pete's blushes over offering him help on the nursing front.

nah, there's something wrong with that dude.

the whole point of that character is for him to eventually drop the other shoe

it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE he's a good guy and he's gonna make joan happy forever but i am inclined to doubt it

Peggy's mom will also, I'm sure, mention her daughter's age age in one of those discussions where her middle name also gets an airing.

it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE he's a good guy and he's gonna make joan happy forever but i am inclined to doubt it

I've been thinking of Bob as a sort of male version of Meghan - a wide-eyed, essentially good-hearted naif who is being set up to be swallowed whole by the soul-sucking joylessness of the advertising world

except the actor plays him as way more ingratiating and obseqious

I think he's the anti-Draper in the sense that he's working under an alias for nefarious purposes. Don't know which nefarious purposes yet, but...

it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE there's a funny smell coming from Bob's basement

bob

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<3 YES

in five years we'll all either be working for him or dead by his hand

something that was keeping me up last night: how many of the characters are actually *from* NYC/NJ? how many of them have "new york" accents?

peggy's from brooklyn -- no accent.
ginsberg's from the lower east side i think -- heavy accent.
pete is a manhattanite -- he has an old-timey upper east side cartoon villain mcmoneybags accent
jaguar guy is from jersey iirc -- he has the accent

i don't know the rosens' backstory but their accents are more generic.

An exchange from Season 4:

Peggy: Are you from Brooklyn?
Abe: I am.
Peggy: Me, too.
Abe: I don't hear it.
Peggy: One more drink and it'll come out.

Peggy's mom totally has the accent

i grew up in brooklyn and i don't have an accent, but my parents (native new yorkers) totally do.

it's a topic that really interests me because my mom has told me i'm "pretentious" for not having an accent like hers. like i'm abandoning my roots or something.

It all depends on when Welcome Back Kotter went off the air.

Or All in the Family.

peggy has been pretentious about brooklyn/manhattan in the past, like when she went on a blind date with a delivery guy from her neighborhood.

xp - those were still on the air in my formative years!

I've spent my whole adult life working away my accent. Peggy's "one more drink" line is so true, ya.

wasn't paul kinsey from new jersey also? there was that exchange about him starting out at princeton as a jersey boy on scholarship before his transformation into ivy league foppishness.

An interventionist grandmother helped me to swerve a Minnesota accent and phrases like 'oh, jeez!' that emphasise it. She did not help my sister, whose vocabulary is all of those phrases and not a lot else.

Oh for unfortunate.

Betty being hit on at the big society party totally reminded me of her and Henry's first meeting

I miss Fat Betty. :(

except she was pregnant when henry came on to her

will lol if Betty gets pregnant from her indiscretion with Don btw

i will roll my eyes forever if that happens

so far they've had 3 unwanted pregnancies from one night stands, what's one more